Commentary

It was Mahatma Gandhi who said "to believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest". In election after election in post-Independence Jamaica our leaders have invited us to trust what they professed to have been their beliefs; but they have failed in almost every instance to live up to them

Experiencing the agony of other people calling you names is one thing, but when the name-calling comes from your parents it can be more than traumatic.

My three-year-old son puts his hands over his eyes and sings with glee, "Daddy you can't see me!". To block out the incessant and 'annoying' noise of her baby brother, my seven-year-old daughter says. "Shut up Kareem, lalalalalalala, I can't hear you. You are soooooo annoying." I think I have the Government living at my house.

WE ARE disappointed, but not overly surprised, by the reported snail's paced take-up of loans under the Government's Young Entrepreneurs Programme (YEP).Most of $200 million the administration earmarked for the project...

Send them back - I read with interest the story about criminals from Haiti coming to Jamaica.

The picture of what an earlier Armadale was like has been drawn for us by Ken Jones in his Sunday Gleaner article of March 21 where we were reminded that the institution was once the "pride of rehabilitation centres" in Jamaica.

On Saturday, C.F. Robinson in a letter to the editor agreed with those who believe in the "inadequacy of the statue of Paul Bogle" as an acceptable portrayal of the national hero.

A series of inexcusable rulings by the Parliamentary Chair - the Speaker of the House of Representatives and President of the Senate - should be of considerable concern to a nation, in light of the frequent...

Assistant Commissioner of Police Novelett Grant has made heavy weather of the purported findings of a study claiming that media images of the constabulary distort reality, thereby weakening the ability of the Jamaica...

Extend Champs ban - Thirty years ago, children were not faced with the mayhem that now faces parents, school administrators and the police.

European Union (EU) leaders are meeting today to fashion a response to Russia's military offensive in Georgia and Moscow's formal recognition of the independence of Georgia's two breakaway provinces of South Ossetia...

I saw a track and field athletics coach at a meet recently. He was bitterly expressing his disappointment in his school not being able to perform at the meet...